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Oops. If true, the utter betrayal of government over the governed. At least in a fascist state, you know you're going to get screwed. Well, I think we can all agree now this is proof positive everything Snowden has said is completely valid.


Well, we can't really know everything he said is valid (he might be mistaken or deceived, for example) but certainly some of it is. But one doesn't need Snowden to know government will expand its powers if allowed to do so. You don't need Snowden, you just need a good history book and a bit of thinking. Snowden revelations showed how bad exactly it has gotten. But you could predict that it's going to get bad just because the government has been given wide powers and no substantial control over them. There's no way it would not go bad, it always does.


Prior to Snowden's 'revelations' I was accused of being a tin-foil hatter wherever I expressed my opinion on government spying. Not so much now.


Snowden's revelations came too late to garner a big enough reaction from the populace in my opinion


> At least in a fascist state, you know you're going to get screwed.

Lots of people know this about our state, but most of them get dismissed as radicals.


No state (today) would openly admit to that label.




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